A Typical Breakfast and Fat

 

This is a typical carnivore breakfast for me. Sometimes it's 3 poached eggs with less meat. Today it's 2 soft poached eggs, done in the cups with lard, with some bacon, beef and cheese. Today the cheese is gouda. Sometimes it 's havarti, or cheddar or edam. Last week I had a small piece of smoked gruyere. Its was okay but not as good as many others. My favourite is garlic and herb harvarti, although this gouda is very good and creamy! I often melt the cheese over the eggs, not today. I have been enjoying this creamy gouda lately, as is. 

The beef is about 1/4 of a steak, grilled on cast iron on the stove in lard. Not a lot of fat in this one. I might consider adding a lot of butter to the top of low fat beef (and licking the plate. I always lick my plate when there's lots of melted fat on it. Like I said in an earlier post... I don't eat out much. lol) I have lately been eating butter by itself. It's delicious cold and hard, not so much at room temperature. I also put quite a large chunk of butter in my coffee now. It's also delicious! I don't know if I could go back to drinking it with just cream. I've gotten so used to the great, melted butter on top. I wonder if salted lard would be good, cold and hard... hmmmm... probably not so much, but worth a try. It's a LOT cheaper than butter.

I'm being creative about ways to eat more fat, but it's hard. It's probably the hardest thing about the carnivore diet, trying to eat enough fat. I prefer to eat hard cheeses as the fat content is higher, with less water. I do occasionally eat cream cheese with a high fat content and 14% fat sour cream. I also eat high fat greek yogurt, 10-11% fat when I can get it. I sometimes drain the high fat yogurt to condense it down thicker and dryer. That condenses the fat even more.

I eat more dairy now than I used to. I'm wondering if that's a good thing with North American dairy containing so many growth hormones given to the cows. I have read that eating an over abundance of non-organic dairy could result in cancer in reproductive organs, male and female. Oh well, I'm too old now to worry about long term health concerns from diet and I like my dairy too much to cut it out. It's a good source of fat too.